ICU nurse donates part of liver to save 8-year-old Wisconsin boy

This Wisconsin nurse went above and beyond her job description.

Cami Loritz, an ICU nurse at Froedtert Hospital in Wauwatosa, Wis. this summer donated part of her liver for a transplant that saved an 8-year-old boy’s life, WBAY reported last week.

“We can’t thank her enough. She’s a true miracle,” the kid’s mother, Ruth Auten, told the outlet. “We consider her one of us, one of our family.”

Ruth’s son, Brayden Auten, got sick in April, and doctors at the Milwaukee Children’s Hospital said he had an aggressive virus that was attacking his liver.

Ruth and her husband James Auten said they “just bawled our eyes out” when they learned Brayden needed a partial liver transplant.

“We didn’t think it was going to get that far,” Ruth said.

Desperate to find a donor, they posted Brayden’s story on Facebook and were flooded with responses.

But no one that reached out was a match.

“We’re waiting there and just watching him get sicker. It was tough,” said James Auten.

But then, “we had the miracle, Cami shows up,” Auten added.

“What she did was completely selfless and she saved his life, plain and simple,” she said.

Brayden went home in July and is now gearing up to go back to school.

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